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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: which ethernet cards suppported?
Date: 15 Aug 1995 10:48:20 +0200
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Stefan Esser <se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE> wrote:

>|> I think, the most stable driver has been the `ed' driver, and the
>|> WD8013 (compatible) cards.  I'm also running the `is' driver with an
>|> esoteric Isolan board.
>
>In case he owns a PCI bus system, I still have the 
>FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 PCI bus patches available via FTP.

Yup, our server is also still running with them. :)

>They will allow use of DEC 21040 based PCI Ethernet
>cards (several models from DEC, Znyx, SMC).

Hmm, is there a `de' driver available for FreeBSD 1?  I thought Matt
Thomas has been developing it after FreeBSD 2 has been born.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)